Isabella married George Smith, a writer, at Turnberry Lodge on 23 October 1849, following proclamation on 21 October. She died of tuberculosis at 21 Elmbank Place, Glasgow, on 10 January 1866. George died there on 29 September 1871. The 1861 household included Isabella’s mother, her nephew David Murray and a visiting Agnes Tennant.

Their children carried the family into law, diplomacy, teaching and overseas households.

• John Guthrie Smith (about 1851–1923), married Elizabeth Orr Rennie; children.
• Isabella “Ella” Tennant Smith (about 1853–after 1891), married Avidis Garboushian; no children documented in the reviewed family account.
• Catherine “Kate” McGee Smith (1853–1936), married Charles T. B. Cowan; children.
• Ann / Ana M. Smith (1855–after 1926), married Juan Oyarzabal y Bucelli; children; later in the United States.
• George Alexander Smith (1857–1927), married Helen Isabel “Nell” Vandy; children; New Zealand.
• Agnes Jessie Tennant Smith (1859–1958), unmarried.

Ann married the Glasgow lawyer David Murray on 1 June 1841. The conflicting given name in the Kirkoswald entry is reconciled by the Gorbals marriage record and their son’s baptism, which identify David. Murray worked in the partnerships Murray & Galloway and Murray & Smith. He died of typhus in 1848, after which Ann returned with her children to Turnberry.

Their sons were David Murray (born 15 April 1842, baptized 18 May; died 2 October 1928), the solicitor and collector who married Frances Porter Stoddard, and John Guthrie Murray (about 1847–19 May 1924), an engineer who married Mary Rowan and settled in Australia. Both had children. Ann died on 3 March 1901. James Hamilton’s study of David Murray’s legal archive supplies useful context for the younger David’s professional and collecting life.

David Ross v. Mrs Isobel or Isabella Tennent or Guthrie, reported on 12 November 1839, concerned a tradesman’s account for work and materials supplied to the Turnberry farm. It identifies Isabella as the widow and executrix and records discussion of payments in money and produce. It supplies household and estate context, not John’s parents.

The report contains a death-date inconsistency of its own: a narrative passage says 25 February 1834, while the widow’s reported deposition says 25 January 1834. The memorial evidence gives 24 January. The directly reviewed Kirkoswald entry is dated 29 January and describes Captain John from Turnberry Lodge as a middle-aged man, without an explicit “buried” statement. The page retains 24 January as the memorial date, treats 29 January as the register date, probably burial, and records the court report’s conflicting readings rather than harmonizing them silently.

The proposed connection rests on family reconstruction, names and geography. Neither the captain’s memorial nor the 1834 parish entry names his parents. They therefore do not directly prove that he was William and Ann’s son.

The memorial index estimates a birth in 1789 from an age of 45. For the Mauchline child, the 1790 birth and baptism take precedence over that calculation. Daughter Margaret’s stone age of twelve also disagrees with her recorded 19 April 1821 birth and 17 June 1834 death. These age differences remain visible evidence issues.

The legacy probate transcription records confirmation on 18 April 1879, an estate of £3,393 3s., a will dated 13 September 1876 and recording on 8 April 1879. The named executors include daughter Ann Hunter Guthrie or Murray, grandson David Murray and grandson John Guthrie Smith. Relevant Glasgow records are SC36/51/77 (will) and SC36/48/88 (inventory). The linked death notice is dated 17 June 1878; the legacy link label’s 1879 is a typographical error.

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• Mauchline birth/baptism: John, 10 and 15 February 1790, son of William Guthrie and Ann Hunter.
• Kirkoswald OPR deaths, 601/40/174, manuscript p. 85: Captain John Guthree, entry 29 January 1834; original directly reviewed.
• Kirkoswald OPR: John, son of Janet Lenox, born 26 April and baptized 20 July 1819; Isabella’s entry, display pp. 431–432; Margaret, p. 9/346; Ann Hunter, p. 20/346.
• Isabella Guthrie–George Smith marriage: Barony 622, p. 11/573; proclamation 21 October, marriage 23 October 1849.
• Ann Hunter Guthrie–David Murray marriage: Gorbals 644/2, p. 293; son David’s baptism, Barony 622, p. 342.
• Charles Rogers, The Book of Robert Burns (1890), p. 272, Tennant pedigree, with assistance acknowledged from Dr. David Murray.
• Glasgow Sentinel, 18 September 1822, p. 6; Glasgow Chronicle, 31 October 1849, p. 8; North British Daily Mail, 17 June 1878, p. 1.
• Reports of Cases Decided in the Supreme Courts of Scotland, 12 November 1839, pp. 160–161, David Ross v. Mrs Isobel or Isabella Tennent or Guthrie; page images reviewed.
• Captain John and Margaret Guthrie memorials, Kirkoswald Kirkyard, Find a Grave 185089534 and 185089559.

Research links

• Guthrie Research Tree · John Guthrie · 1790–1834
• Royal East Middlesex Militia
• Torthorwald
• Kirkoswald Kirkyard
• David Murray and his lost legal archive
• David Murray (solicitor)
• Scotland, National Probate Index – 1879 (Calendar of Confirmations and Inventories)
• Legal Records – Wills and Testaments
• 185089534 for John
• The Book of Robert Burns: Genealogical and Historical Memoirs of the Poet, His Associates and Those Celebrated in His Writings
• Glasgow Sentinel – Wednesday 18 September 1822
• Glasgow Chronicle – Wednesday 31 October 1849
• North British Daily Mail, 17 June 1878 · Isabella’s death notice
• Reports of Cases Decided in the Supreme Courts of Scotland and in the House of Lords on Appeal from Scotland.